Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Hello everyone, welcome to our second week of Challenge Five on the Chocolate Baroque challenge Blog. This week, we are announcing the winners of Challenge Four.

The winner of our £15 prize to spend at Chocolate Baroque is Kate whose lovely Mackintosh inspired card was drawn by Random.org as the overall winner. Congratulations Kate, we hope that you will have fun spending your voucher.

You can also display our Winner's badge, details of how to obtain the badge can be found on the FAQ tab at the top of the page. Please email Lesley on lesley@chocolatebaroque.com so that she can organise your voucher.

Our Top Three has been chosen by the Design Team. As always, we had a really hard time, as the entries were just amazing. Our Top Three winners in no particular order are:

Congratulations Girls, you can display the Top Three badge on your blog. Details of how to obtain the badge may be found on the FAQ tab at the top of the page. Well done to everyone who entered, and we hope that you will enter our current challenge, the colours are gorgeous. You can find the details here.

We have some more Design Team inspiration for you this week. Our first card is from Shirley, a stunning Christmas creation:

The next card is from Asha, a light and airy floral card, suitable for so many occasions:

Finally another gorgeous Christmas card from Claire, lots of snowflakes and a beautiful bow:

Thank you girls for your inspiration, they are all so different. Hopefully they will give you some ideas and inspire you to enter the challenge.

We will be back next week with more projects from the Design Team, but until then, we look forward to seeing more of your crafty projects. If you have any questions and you cannot find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this blog post; you will see it after the comments section.

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Hello everyone, welcome to a brand new challenge on the Chocolate Baroque challenge blog. Thank you for all of your entries into last month's challenge. We will be announcing the winner next week, both here and on our Facebook page, so be sure to check out the announcement, it could be you!

As a reminder to those of you who have visited our blog before, and for anyone who is new to the blog, our challenges are monthly, based on an inspirational photo and a colour swatch. A new challenge is posted on the third Wednesday of every month and you can use any medium to create your projects; paints, inks, pencils, pens, etc., as long as you keep to the colours from the colour swatch in your project.

We are offering a monthly prize of £15 to spend on Chocolate Baroque stamps to one lucky winner, who will be selected by Random.org from all of the entrants who have used Chocolate Baroque stamps that are currently available on the website. We welcome entries incorporating any other stamps, but they will not be eligible to win the prize. All entrants will have a chance to be selected as one of our Top Three and can then display our 'I made the Top Three at Chocolate Baroque' badge on their blog.

Now onto this month's challenge, which has been inspired by a piece of original artwork created by Shirley:

The challenge will close at 12.00 p.m. on Tuesday 16th December 2014, and the winner will be announced on Wednesday 24th December 2014. Here are some inspirational projects from our Design Team for you:

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Hello everyone, and welcome to the final week of Challenge Four on the Chocolate Baroque challenge blog. Thank you so much for the amazing entries that you have been sending into the challenge so far, we love taking a look at what you have been creating. There is still plenty of time to enter the current challenge, and if you would like to add your project, you can find the link in this post.

This week, we are taking a look at some of the entries that we have received so far for our current challenge. The first card is this lovely sample from Janny. She has used a Poppy stamp from the Poppy Meadow set as her focal image, and the colouring is really bright and uplifting:

Next is an email entry from Janice, using a pretty butterfly. Her background is a great blend of the colours:

Penny has created a super steampunk tag, with a great textured background for her entry:

Finally, an unusual colour scheme for a Christmas card, but this steampunk tree looks great on Debbie's starry background:

Such a great variety for our selection this month, but all using the same colours in one way or another.

We will be back next week with a new challenge, and in the meantime hope to see lots more entries for the current challenge. Remember, you stand a chance of winning a £15 voucher, details of which can be found on our How it works tab at the top of the page. Don't forget if you have any questions, and you can't find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this post; you will see it after the comments section.

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Hello everyone, welcome back to the Chocolate Baroque Challenge blog. Thank you so much for your entries this week, it never ceases to surprise us at the variety of entries that we receive. There is still plenty of time to enter the challenge and if you would like to add your project, you can find the link in this post.

We have two free downloads from Lesley for you this week, and as always, they are absolutely amazing. Please do not pass them on to others, but send them back here to collect the freebies for themselves.

To obtain your free downloads, please click on the images below. Once you have enlarged the images on your screen, right click the images, choose the option 'Save As', and save the images to your computer. You can now print the images onto a variety of surfaces for your crafting projects.

The Design Team have been busy making some projects for you with the downloads for your inspiration.

Here are a couple of projects from Florence, a fabulous journal book using Stampbord for the focal image:

and a classy masculine card with a great mix of images:

Next up is Miranda with some Indian inspired pieces, the jewel colours are just beautiful:

and a leafy card that is perfect for this time of year:

Shirley has made a pretty card using one of the Chocolate Baroque bird stamps, these colours are lovely against the background paper:

Doreen's tag is a nod to the coming Season, and the white highlights are really striking:

If you feel inspired to make anything with the downloads yourself, why not upload them to our Facebook Page? We would love to see what you have made.

We will be back next week with another post, and look forward to seeing lots more entries for the current challenge from you in the meantime. Don't forget if you have any questions, and you can't find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this blog post; you will see it after the comments section.

Current Challenge

Welcome

A very warm welcome to the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. We love crafting and stamping in particular and we love to share and encourage you to have a go.

We hope that you will be inspired to get your stamps inked up, make some time to play and end up with a creation you are proud to share with us all.

Please take a look around - we have tabs at the top that give you lots of information about how our challenges work and if you have any questions at all, please use the Contact page to get in touch and one of the team will get back to you.